David Charles Edwards

**dcdl12976** · 26-09-2015, 17:35

Guys a fellow reenactor has asked me to try to get some basic info on his grandfather.

Name: David Charles Edwards
Service Number:4199610
Rank: Fusilier

fought in Arromanches.
He was captured shortly after and sent to a camp in Poland called Stalag 8B.
He was forced onto a death march but survived.

Any info to help him gratefully received Thanks

Dave

**dcdl12976** · 26-09-2015, 18:05

After pointing him to the forces war records site he has this additional info
POW No.82801
Fate: Prisoner of war

It seems that it was written whilst he was a POW, it says 'Resided town: Stalag 8B, Teschen'.
'Resided country: Poland'.

**ap1** · 26-09-2015, 18:14

Attested 28 May 1940. He departed the regiment on the 12 Sept 1945, moving to the RASC. Does your friend know which battalion he was with?

**dcdl12976** · 26-09-2015, 18:18

Thanks Al sorry no that's all the info he has but from what I can tell it can be one of three 4th, 6th and 7th not that that helps much

**Drew5233** · 27-09-2015, 13:12

Never use Forces War Records and tell your friend to make sure his DD is cancelled or they will keep taking money from his account.

**dcdl12976** · 27-09-2015, 13:44

Will do mate thanks for that

**ap1** · 27-09-2015, 13:48

I can't see his name on the 4, 6th, & 7th Bn missing 44-45. Maybe he was attached to Brigade HQ.

Also Arromanche! no fighting here by the time 158 Inf Bde landed on the 23/24th June. They only paused at the beaches, within 24hrs they had already moved beyond Bayeaux. I wonder if he landed on D-Day 6th June, but i'm not sure who with? I think you need to question your friend, just in case there are other little titbits to be mentioned. I would certainly expect Caen and Evrecy to be part of the conversation, as they took place in mid-July, indeed most of the early POW's are taken at this point. I would expect a veteran of 158 Inf Bde to have mentioned Evrecy/Caen rather than Arromanche, which really only had relevence to the D-Day Troops, who had to fight to secure it.